Writing & scholarship
Adán writes and lectures on liturgy, hymnody, and the sacred music of Latin America. He is a columnist for GIA Publications, edits Puentes for the Hymn Society's Center for Congregational Song, and is managing editor of Res facta. His choral music is published by MusicSpoke and GIA.
Religions
Vol. 16, no. 5, 2025 · Peer-reviewed, open access
How folk Masses in local languages, from the Misa Campesina onward, grew out of Vatican II and became a form of theological and cultural resistance, and what that history says about the vernacular liturgy today.
Read the article →doi 10.3390/rel16050586Religions
Vol. 13, no. 3, 2022 · Peer-reviewed, open access
A reading of the best-known Latin American Mass setting through its history, theology, and music, and what its localisation of the Roman rite meant after the Council.
Read the article →doi 10.3390/rel13030189GIA Publications
Edition, 2023
His edition of three Bach chorales for GIA, part of his work for Spanish-speaking parishes. He also serves on the editorial board of GIA's Spanish hymnal.
GIA Publications →Choral Arts Initiative
World premiere, 2024
His own choral work, premiered at Concordia University Irvine. The recording is on the Listen page.
Hear the premiere →The complete list of publications, compositions and lectures is in his curriculum vitae.
For parishes, universities, and societies. Several talks are recorded.
